[Files] A.F.P.L Ghostscript 8 released today! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 18-Jul-2003 13:25 GMT by whoosh777 (Edited on 2003-07-19 16:45:59 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä) | 15 comments View flat View list |
A.F.P.L Ghostscript 8.00 for 68020 compatible
Amigas released today. For printing + viewing and
converting PS and PDF docs, eg 24 bit rgb printing
via Turboprint, 24 bit rgb Cybergraphics viewers
and HAM8 viewer for AGA machines.
click for full info, this program doesnt cost anything!
A.F.P.L Ghostscript 8.00 released today!
This contains a major fixing of the Turboprint devices to make
them compliant with Ghostscript 8. Now you can print PS and PDF
in commercial quality 24 bit rgb via the Turboprint devices.
Brand new PS + PDF viewing options have been written from scratch to
enable viewing in truecolour via graphics cards (Cybergraphics and
hopefully Picasso too). To know if you can use these viewers
type "version cybergraphics.library full" from a shell, if you
get a meaningful reply then the truecolour viewers are available.
The Cybergraphics viewers have only been tested in depth (with success)
on 2 graphics cards and superficially on 2 other cards so problems
could occur, if so email me: whoosh777@blueyonder.co.uk and I will
try to fix any problems.
Also written are 6 brand new AGA viewers for PS and PDF, including
a HAM8 custom screen viewer for 262144 colour viewing, also
present is a colour WB viewer window.
I am interested also in feedback positive or negative of
whether the viewers function on Pegasos and A1.
<tr>This is an optimised FPU noixemul 68020 compile, I will do
a no-FPU version over the next few days.
<tr>The manual can be viewed online or downloaded via
http://www.whoosh777.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/atlast.html
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Posted by whoosh777 on 21-Jul-2003 14:13 GMT | In reply to Comment 9 (AnonX): The above reply malfunctioned!I spent so long on it, that in the meantime Steve Hargreaves produced a much better answer,so believing in providence I abandon my reply!AnonX said:>Thanks for the detailed reply :-)>but why not have one viewer and just set these options in the prefs?>or is it to do with them being a sort of virtual printer driver.>or the complex why each setup is handled.well it is actually something like what you suggest:effectively there are 3 devices: whoosh1, whooshg and whoosh24,options are then selected via env-variables to generate the 12 viewers. ie the env-variables select different internal execution paths,so eg for the HAM8 custom screen viewer you use whoosh24 with the following env settings:set print 0set window 1set whooshsuper 0set whoosh216 0For the Cyber WB truecolour viewer you also use whoosh24 and env settings:set print 0set window 1set whooshsuper 1The code determines whether the setup has a graphics card or AGA so no env-variable required for this,for custom screen viewers, the user selects any screen from a requester. You can also specify a screen via an env variable,in which case no screen requester would appearMichael Merkel says he may write a GUI for setting these viewer env variables,My focus has always been on functionality rather than cosmetics, ie its useful rather than pretty, pretty useful??whoosh777 |
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